Orson Welles Quotes

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Image is what people perceive my life to be. It's nothing like the truth.

I often tend to think that things are not what they seem.

Everything you see is not always real.

Things are not always as they seem.

Sometimes what we see, what's going on in front of us, isn't really what's happening.

We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye.

Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?

In Shakespeare's world, characters cannot trust their senses. Is the ghost in Hamlet true and truthful, or is it a demon, tempting young Hamlet into murderous sin? Is Juliet dead or merely sleeping? Does Lear really stand at the edge of a great cliff? Or has the Fool deceived him to save his life?

Seeing is not always believing.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

I always see that there's a - from a philosophical point of view - there's the appearance of things that everybody wants you to think is happening, then there's the reality underneath it.

Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

Reality has a way of intruding upon illusion.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

People are often disappointed when they meet me because I'm not this giant, flamboyant - you know, I don't wear sequined jackets.

You can't go by what things look like on paper.

Now it's clear to me/ that everything you see/ ain't always what it seems.

something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. before that, it is something real. what caused the disillusionment? no one told me the print on the wall was just ink and paper and had no life of its own. at some point the cat stopped blinking, and i stopped thinking it could.

All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.

Generally, a lot of the things people think are made up are real, a lot of the things people think are real are made up, a lot of the things people think are spontaneous are cleverly faked, and a lot of the things people think are fake are spontaneous.